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Rate related tachycardia control pacer

  • US 4,408,606 A
  • Filed: 03/19/1981
  • Issued: 10/11/1983
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/19/1980
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A tachycardia control pacer comprising means for confirming tachycardia, means responsive to each operation of said confirming means for generating a sequence of at least three heart stimulating pulses, means for controlling successive heart stimulating pulses in said sequence to be generated after decreasing time intervals, means for registering the last interval between heartbeats prior to the operation of said confirming means, means for controlling the first pulse in said sequence to be generated at the end of a first time interval following the last heartbeat which is equal to said registered interval less a predetermined value, the successive pulses in said sequence being generated after decreasing time intervals starting with said first time interval, means for controlling the same number of pulses to be generated during each pulse sequence, and means for preventing the pulses toward the end of any sequence from being generated after time intervals which are less than a predetermined interval.

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